Barcelona have had their appeal against a two-window transfer ban rejected by FIFA following a hearing on Wednesday. The Spanish giants will be barred from signing players in the next two transfer windows, taking them through until January 2016, after breaking the transfer rules related to signing players for their famed La Masia academy, Barca […]
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Barcelona head coach Luis Enrique has confirmed Luis Suarez will play in the pre-season clash on Monday. The head coach says he has been impressed by the Uruguayan in training this weekend and will give him some playing time in the Gamper Trophy The Uruguayan returned to training this weekend after the Court of Arbitration […]
Uefa has announced its three contenders for its UEFA’s Best Player in Europe Award and they are Bayern Munich and Germany World Cup winning goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, Holland and Bayern winger Arjen Robben and Real Madrid and Portugal forward Cristiano Ronaldo. The winner will be announced on 28 August in Monaco, where the draw for […]
The Court of Arbitration for Sport have upheld Luis Suarez’s four-month ban for biting Italy’s Giorgio Chiellini during this summer’s World Cup. Suarez’s lawyers argued that Fifa’s decision to suspend him from all “football-related activity” for biting Chiellini was excessive. While the Cas did not reduce Suarez’s ban, they have ruled that the Uruguay striker […]
In a move that really smells of desperation, Barcelona have paid a reported £15 million for Arsenal defender, and signed the 28-year-old to a five-year contract. This was followed on Sunday by a statement on Barcelona’s website. “Thomas Vermaelen is now officially an FC Barcelona player. A few minutes past 11:15am, the player signed a […]
Super agent Jorge Mendes was in Madrid on Monday to talk to the European Champions about two of his clients, Monaco striker Radamel Falcao and Los Blancos forward Angel Di Maria. Falcao has been linked with a move to Real Madrid for months, and I wrote back in June that BeIN Sports were reporting that […]
The tax courts have not been very favorable to Barcelona and there players this year. First the club was hit with the “Neymar Affair”a and then today a Spanish judge rejected a prosecutor’s request to drop charges of tax fraud against Lionel Messi and ordered the investigation into three cases of suspected unpaid taxes to […]
Once again Real Madrid have signed the star of the World Cup, this time it is James Rodriguez, who has joined the European Champions for a reported £63 million. The winner of the World Cup’s Golden Boot got a rapturous reception from a 45,000-strong crowd, around a third of whom were wearing Colombia shirts, when […]